John McCarthy
Why corporate Australia still thinks you should live in an economy rather than a society
On a trade mission to Asia in the 1990s I was part of a delegation that visited a factory that seemed to...
How the world’s new media has turned from saviour to destroyer – and we can’t slow it down
There was a time when Twitter (now called X) appeared to be an enormous power for democracy. The Arab Spring revolution of...
Lost: One moral compass. Please return (if it exists) to Australian business community
Scan the business pages each day and you will see a plethora of companies that have tied their reputations to a stake...
Merry dance: The legal fandango over coal sets the stage for any switch to nuclear
When the Hinkley nuclear power station in the UK was first proposed it was expected to cost about $17 billion and would...
Tourism is booming in Cairns, even without interest from China
China was going to be the great hope for a Covid-ravaged tourism sector, except when the borders re-opened the flood of people...
Invited into our homes, but are Siri and Alexa ripping us off?
The strategies of the five biggest digital platforms find their expanding reach into our daily lives is exacerbating the risk to competition...
Gen Z is looking for answers in all the wrong places
Gen Z was in a world of financial pain and hoping that social media, an extra job or buy now, pay later...
They’re back: China’s long-lost tourists return to Brisbane
A China Eastern Airlines flight from Shanghai touched down at Brisbane airport on Wednesday morning, ending a gap of three years, eight...
Furious shareholders reject Qantas’s exec pay plan
Qantas has faced a shareholder revolt, with an overwhelming vote against the company’s remuneration report at its annual meeting. The airline suffered...
After a dozen disasters, how No.13 caught insurance industry off guard
The insurance industry has admitted it was overwhelmed by the scale and ferocity of the 2022 east coast flood disaster, which caused...